What is plastic wrap made of?
Plastic wrap takes PVC, polyethylene and cardboard directly. Trace them back and you pass 31 made things on the way to 11 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 11 raw materials
- Water through cardboard
- Natural gas through polyethylene, ethylene
- Rock salt through PVC, chlorine
- Iron ore through PVC, pigment
- Sulfur through PVC, pigment
- Air through PVC, plasticizer
- Timber through cardboard, wood pulp
- Crude oil through cardboard, adhesive, paraffin wax
- Titanium ore through PVC, pigment, titanium dioxide
- Limestone through cardboard, wood pulp, quicklime
- Coal through PVC, pigment, titanium dioxide, coke
Made along the way: 28 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 23
EthyleneChlorinePigmentPlasticizerAdhesiveNaphthaSulfuric acidTitanium dioxideCarbon blackPropyleneCaustic sodaQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideParaffin waxHydrogenAmmoniaMethanolPhenolAcetoneNitric acidBenzeneToluene